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OT Need help from the metric savy
I'll probably be able to sort this on my own when my brain settles (it has been one of _those_ days), but just in case it gets stuck on slow... I've been asked to make one of Jamie Oliver's recipes to bring to an upcoming do. In the course of things it tells me to roll puff paste out about as thick as a pound coin. Looking it up I find that a pound coin is a smidge thicker than 3mm. That would be roughly an eighth of an inch? So about half as thick as your average rolled cookie dough? It is a recipe for sausage rolls, which was handed to me because I know how to make puff paste and you cannot get boughten here. Rather annoying because I don't eat meat sausage. NightMist -- I'm raising a developmentally disabled child. What's your superpower? |
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OT Need help from the metric savy
Yes, there are 25.4 mm per inch, so an eighth of a inch is about right,
maybe a scant bit thicker. On 6/10/2011 7:01 PM, NightMist wrote: I'll probably be able to sort this on my own when my brain settles (it has been one of _those_ days), but just in case it gets stuck on slow... I've been asked to make one of Jamie Oliver's recipes to bring to an upcoming do. In the course of things it tells me to roll puff paste out about as thick as a pound coin. Looking it up I find that a pound coin is a smidge thicker than 3mm. That would be roughly an eighth of an inch? So about half as thick as your average rolled cookie dough? It is a recipe for sausage rolls, which was handed to me because I know how to make puff paste and you cannot get boughten here. Rather annoying because I don't eat meat sausage. NightMist |
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Just sat here looking dumb on this one. I know puff pastry but not puff
paste - and millimeter is some kind of machine gun, isn't it? Polly "Liz Megerle" wrote ... Yes, there are 25.4 mm per inch, so an eighth of a inch is about right, maybe a scant bit thicker. On 6/10/2011 7:01 PM, NightMist wrote: I'll probably be able to sort this on my own when my brain settles (it has been one of _those_ days), but just in case it gets stuck on slow... I've been asked to make one of Jamie Oliver's recipes to bring to an upcoming do. In the course of things it tells me to roll puff paste out about as thick as a pound coin. Looking it up I find that a pound coin is a smidge thicker than 3mm. That would be roughly an eighth of an inch? So about half as thick as your average rolled cookie dough? It is a recipe for sausage rolls, which was handed to me because I know how to make puff paste and you cannot get boughten here. Rather annoying because I don't eat meat sausage. NightMist |
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OT Need help from the metric savy
On 11/06/2011 05:34, Polly Esther wrote:
Just sat here looking dumb on this one. I know puff pastry but not puff paste - and millimeter is some kind of machine gun, isn't it? Polly Just another name for the same thing, and think of rolling it out to about the same thickness as a silver dollar. Nightmist, I do veggie sausage rolls using my favourite veggie loaf recipe as the sausage meat. "Liz Megerle" wrote ... Yes, there are 25.4 mm per inch, so an eighth of a inch is about right, maybe a scant bit thicker. On 6/10/2011 7:01 PM, NightMist wrote: I'll probably be able to sort this on my own when my brain settles (it has been one of _those_ days), but just in case it gets stuck on slow... I've been asked to make one of Jamie Oliver's recipes to bring to an upcoming do. In the course of things it tells me to roll puff paste out about as thick as a pound coin. Looking it up I find that a pound coin is a smidge thicker than 3mm. That would be roughly an eighth of an inch? So about half as thick as your average rolled cookie dough? It is a recipe for sausage rolls, which was handed to me because I know how to make puff paste and you cannot get boughten here. Rather annoying because I don't eat meat sausage. NightMist -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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I'll certainly make some for home using nut or veg sausage. DH has been working on a black bean sausage that is showing great promise. For this "do" I shall have to make it to recipe though. I am quite certain that my coz selected this recipe quite intentionally to annoy, so just because I am a bit of an a** when it comes to obnoxious relatives and show off cooking I shall have to do a really excellent job of it. See, my aunt was the pastry goddess in the family, and she really ticked off coz by telling her that I was a better pastry cook than coz is. This led to a pastry throwdown. I don't know what coz was thinking because she brought a cream of _rhubarb_ pie and some shoofly pie tarts (think treacle tart), I brought a gooseberry pie and a croquembouche. Aunt declared me the winner, coz has never forgiven me. Hence anytime she is involved in organizing a family do she tries to find something to ask me to do that she thinks will annoy. Meals at these things are mostly pot luck, but to make certain there is a reasonably balanced meal some people get called up and asked to make a specific dish. For years I was usually asked to bring a veg dish, but now that coz is helping out I have been asked to bring meat three years in a row. She knows full well we are vegetarians and that I have not much cooked meat these past 30 years. NightMist On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:05:12 +0100, Kate XXXXXX wrote: On 11/06/2011 05:34, Polly Esther wrote: Just sat here looking dumb on this one. I know puff pastry but not puff paste - and millimeter is some kind of machine gun, isn't it? Polly Just another name for the same thing, and think of rolling it out to about the same thickness as a silver dollar. Nightmist, I do veggie sausage rolls using my favourite veggie loaf recipe as the sausage meat. -- I'm raising a developmentally disabled child. What's your superpower? |
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OT Need help from the metric savy
On 11/06/2011 19:47, NightMist wrote:
I'll certainly make some for home using nut or veg sausage. DH has been working on a black bean sausage that is showing great promise. For this "do" I shall have to make it to recipe though. I am quite certain that my coz selected this recipe quite intentionally to annoy, so just because I am a bit of an a** when it comes to obnoxious relatives and show off cooking I shall have to do a really excellent job of it. See, my aunt was the pastry goddess in the family, and she really ticked off coz by telling her that I was a better pastry cook than coz is. This led to a pastry throwdown. I don't know what coz was thinking because she brought a cream of _rhubarb_ pie and some shoofly pie tarts (think treacle tart), I brought a gooseberry pie and a croquembouche. Aunt declared me the winner, coz has never forgiven me. Hence anytime she is involved in organizing a family do she tries to find something to ask me to do that she thinks will annoy. Meals at these things are mostly pot luck, but to make certain there is a reasonably balanced meal some people get called up and asked to make a specific dish. For years I was usually asked to bring a veg dish, but now that coz is helping out I have been asked to bring meat three years in a row. She knows full well we are vegetarians and that I have not much cooked meat these past 30 years. I's just tell her "We do not cook or handle meat" and take the veggie version. To try to make you go against your principles is appallingly bad mannered, and she need to be shown that you don't play her silly games. -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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